.Net Technology – In a Nut Shell

The System Namespace

System Namespace

• System.Object
  
  
  • Base class for each and every type
    
    
  • Single base class makes framework consistent
    
    
• The not-so-primitive "primitive" types
  
  
  • Full-featured classes, rich functionality
    
    
  • Still exposed as language-intrinsic types
    
    
    • C#: bool, int, long, string, double, float
      
      
• System console support
  
  
  • Writing to the console/ Reading from the console
    
    
• Standard interfaces
  
  
  • IFormattable: Provides functionality to format the value of an object
    
    
    • Format method: Formats the value of the current instance as specified.
      
      
  • IDisposable: Provides explicit control of releasing resources

Other Informative Links

Links

http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/samples/bclsamples/

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